Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘An Enigma to their Parents’
- 1 Child Guidance Comes to Britain
- 2 Professionals
- 3 The Spread of Child Guidance in the 1930s
- 4 Normalcy, Happiness and Child Guidance in Practice
- 5 Child Guidance in Wartime
- 6 Child Guidance and the British Welfare State
- 7 Child Guidance in Britain at Mid-Century: ‘More Akin to Magic than to Medicine’
- Conclusion: ‘The Dangerous Age of Childhood’
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Appendix 2
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: ‘An Enigma to their Parents’
- 1 Child Guidance Comes to Britain
- 2 Professionals
- 3 The Spread of Child Guidance in the 1930s
- 4 Normalcy, Happiness and Child Guidance in Practice
- 5 Child Guidance in Wartime
- 6 Child Guidance and the British Welfare State
- 7 Child Guidance in Britain at Mid-Century: ‘More Akin to Magic than to Medicine’
- Conclusion: ‘The Dangerous Age of Childhood’
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Cameron's classification system, 1955
Three underlying assumptions:
The child is a maturing, developing organism.
This maturation and development is taking place in relation to an external (and internal) environment, to which the child is reacting and adapting – some of these reactions and adaptations becoming established in the child.
The child is an individual pursuing his/her own aims and purposes.
Four questions to be posed when the child shows disturbance:
Is the child potentially normal and capable of meeting the demands of the environment?
Is the environment meeting the needs of the child?
Is the environment making normal demands on the child?
How is this particular individual child in all his/her complexity as a human being meeting his/her situation?
Developmental categories:
Physiological maturity or development.
Physical handicapping or ill health.
Intellectual status.
Intellectual handicapping – specific and general.
Emotional maturity.
Variant of personality type.
Reactive categories, i.e. reaction to his/her environment by the child:
Primary habit disturbance – of eating, elimination, sleeping.
Secondary habit disorders – gratification habits, tension habits.
Motor symptomatology – speech disturbance.
Disturbance in personal relationships – dependence, jealousy reactions.
Conduct disorders – delinquency.
Educational or work disturbance.
Individual characteristics and responses:
Psychic symptoms – e.g. fears, phobias, minor obsessional traits.
Somatic symptoms – e.g. headaches, stomach aches.
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- Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955The Dangerous Age of Childhood, pp. 187 - 188Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014